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Introduction

Welcome to soc.sexuality.general, a moderated
Usenet newsgroup for the discussion of human sexuality, in all of its many
facets. We encourage conversation -- factual, fanciful, intellectual, social.

We hope that the newsgroup will help realize some of the promise of Usenet
and the Internet to bring diverse points of view together, to democratize the
discourse. Sex is one of the few things more universal than taxes (or the
internet), yet public forums for its discussion are hard to come by. Years ago
Usenet had "alt.sex", and its associated hierarchy of groups -- now
by and large the conversation on those groups has been supplanted by
commercial advertising (sex products being the one guaranteed money-maker in
the World Wide Web era).

We intend to help create a forum free of the flotsam and jetsam of the
alt.sex hierarchy. To achieve this, a group of volunteer moderators, with the
aid of moderator software, will shield the group from messages that have been
deemed undesirable. For a comprehensive list of criteria, please see the guidelines section of this site.

If you've never used Usenet before, it's probably not what much like the
web forums you may have seen. Usenet predates the web by about a decade; it
works through a decentralized network of replicating servers. To access
Usenet you'll need to get an account on a news server. Many ISPs give these
accounts away for free, so you quite likely already have one.